Saturday, January 2, 2010

Doofus Of The Day #303


Our first Doofus award of 2010 goes to an unnamed Sicilian man.

A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year's Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported on Friday.

The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station on Thursday asking to be arrested because he preferred spending the night in prison rather than with his family, but was rebuffed because he had not committed a crime, the Agi news agency said.

The man immediately went to a tobacco shop next door, where he threatened the owner with a box cutter as he grabbed a few sweets and a packet of gum. He then waited until police arrived to arrest him for robbery, the news agency said.


Well . . . it may have been a Doofus-ish thing to do . . . but what does it say about the man's wife and family??? If he was desperate enough to commit a crime in order to go to jail so as to avoid their company, that's got to be one nightmare of a relationship! Perhaps a divorce might be more in order than a crime?



Peter

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If he was really that smart, he'd have framed them so they could have a night in the big house.

Wait, that was my outside voice again, wasn't it?

Jim

Old NFO said...

Not in Sicily Peter, he would just 'disappear'... there is no divorce down there...